Buy anything cool lately?

Just received a couple of police cars listed as uncatalogued items on the MTH web site.

30-50095 is a 1950 Ford 2-door coupe - Chicago Police Dept

30-50094 is a 1950 Ford 4-door sedan - San Francisco Police Dept

I picked these up from Trainworld December 23rd.  At that point I could only find them on Trainworld and MTH direct, but they are now appearing at other dealers too.

The front end of the Chicago car is sitting a little lower than it should be.  There are two screws on the bottom. I will open it up tonight and have a look.

What caught my eye was the pre-light bar and pre-beacon ray lights on these cars and the radio antenna.

Just got another box of scenery material from Scenic Express so I  can keep going on the scenery.........Paul

Bill Robb posted:

 

The front end of the Chicago car is sitting a little lower than it should be.  There are two screws on the bottom. I will open it up tonight and have a look.

What caught my eye was the pre-light bar and pre-beacon ray lights on these cars and the radio antenna.

 

 

It was a simple repair to correct that issue.

This plate is off a N&W SD-35... Scored it off eBay to trade to a local guy for a newer EMD plate which he has, That plate happens to have the exact same month and year I was born.

p51 posted:

This plate is off a N&W SD-35... Scored it off eBay to trade to a local guy for a newer EMD plate which he has, That plate happens to have the exact same month and year I was born.

Boy, is THAT in rough shape!!!!    Hope you did have to pay/trade much for it.    By the way, it is "SD35", i.e. no "-" in the model name.  Is the plate stainless steel, or one of the later aluminum ones?

got these the other day,,,,way cool,,,grew up by the b&le main line

terry hudon posted:

 

got these the other day,,,,way cool,,,grew up by the b&le main line

Very nice!  I remember them on the B&LE too.  What manufacturer are they?

Black & orange Bessemers  F units are always cool. nice engines.

mark,they are mth,,,,,premier,they made a set in like 96,but I have never seen any for sale,,,,wish they had done the cat wiskers tho,,,,also in the last catalogue,,,they have railking f3,,,but I like the silver mesh on the f7,abit more money but only going to buy it once,,,,,would love to have a tunnel motor,i saw a lot of them out home,,,,but,,,,,need to stick with my plan,,,,,,

Yes I do remember seeing the F3 in the new MTH catalog.  I like the older paint scheme better too. Thank you.

OH HAPPY DAY!!! I just got a call from Shani at 3rd Rail/GGD and my El Capitan set is on the way. Im so excited, and I just can hide it.

Dominic Mazoch posted:

Big Jim posted:

A 1/48 scale U.S. Navy Elco 80' PT Boat by Merit.

 

Will it become PT 109?

Heavens to Betsy NO! The 109 is too puny.

If it makes it to a layout at all, it will be more of a museum piece and try to fit in with an Aquarium theme area...maybe.

The weekend before Christmas I received the last edition to Corrugated Container Corporation's N&W passenger train. This is the Observation car. Since this was the last in the series (611 loco & Tender, Passenger Coach, Observation Car), they used photos of actual employees as passengers in the car. Fittingly, Jerry Higginbotham, Vice President of Manufacturing, is the Conductor looking out the vestibule window. Very sadly a few days after receiving this car, Jerry passed away from cancer. It was a sad time for our family as Jerry was my daughter's Father-in-law.

Lately I've been hooked on Diecast vehicles. I was happy to learn that there was a second run of the very popular Chicago Police Ford Explorer from First Response. I was able to pick up another one (can't have enough police on my layout, lots of thugs around here! ��). 

I had to travel to the PO today to pick up a heavy box filled with Lionel iron. Got 3 locomotives that run, two shells and two ratty tenders.  Have the biggest loco(2065) cleaned up, roof corners straightened, new head light but needs lubed. Will work on the others tomorrow. One is a nice 224E with boxpok drivers. One newspaper wrapping one loco was dated in 2005 so it has been awhile.  There is a motor, too with 6 drivers but no e-unit so it won't run but will play with it later. More fun.

I'll take the motor from you if you want to be rid of it.

Need it to finish a build I'm working on.

You need the motor for a build you are working on ? A steam engine ?  This fits a 2025 & 675.  E-mail me at : panzerjames@gmail.com

These cars are cool for any modeler living in the northern portion of Texas.  The three I bought will look right at home on FW&D 191 or any AT&SF Plains Division road switcher.

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

The big brown truck just dropped this off this morning. Excuse the mess, under destruction.

Steve

Just added the baggage and an extra Pullman, so now a 4 car consists.

Steve